Various keys and their actions:

mythfrontend
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- Arrow keys are used to move the highlight point around.
- ALT-F4 to exit out of the application.
- Space or Enter to take action on the item under the highlight point.
- P to play in both "Watch a Recording" and "Delete a Recording".
- D to delete in both "Watch a Recording" and "Delete a Recording".
- E to edit recording options from any of the pages for scheduling
recordings, the Program Finder, the EPG, and the Watch and Delete screens.
- O to list the upcoming episodes for the currently selected show on
any page where a show title may be highlighed. Note: the "TV
Frontend:VIEWSCHEDULED" keybinding is also available, which shows
only scheduled episodes.
- I to get additional information about the currently selected item
- Y on the "Upcoming Recordings" page switches which capture cards'
items are displayed in the highlight color.
Watching TV or a recording
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- P Pause / Play.
You may also add an explicit keybinding for "Play" through the
MythWeb keybindings page, returning you to normal speed if you
are in slow-motion, rewind, fast forward or pause mode.
- ESC Exit player if no OSD on screen, otherwise exit OSD.
- I Puts the On-screen Display up again.
During playback, 'I' toggles between position and show description info.
If a number of minutes is entered, jump to that position.
- M Menu (allows access to EPG and many other useful features
- K Jumps to the bookmark position.
- T In North America this toggles closed caption support.
- T In Europe follow this with the teletext page and another T
- F Rotate between the various Picture Adjustments (Colour, Hue, etc.)
While Picture Adjustment is on-screen, use Left and Right arrows
to adjust. These settings adjust the look of the video playback,
and are independent of the G-key settings used at record-time.
The Xv picture controls must be enabled in the Playback settings.
- U Increase the play speed [muted]
- J Decrease the play speed [muted]
- A Adjust time stretch (speed up or slow down play speed [with audio])
Use the arrow keys to make adjustment.
- W Cycle through zoom modes: Half, Full, Stretch
- Ctrl-W Force aspect ratio of video to be treated as either 4:3 or 16:9
- S Toggle display of the Program Guide (EPG).
- # Display the Program Finder.
- F8 Cycle through sleep timer settings Off->30m->1hr->1hr30m->2hr->Off
- Left arrow Skip back the configured number of seconds (default is 5)
- Right arrow Skip ahead the configured number of seconds (default is 30)
NOTE: During playback of a recording you can enter a number of hours/minutes
to jump before using the Skip key. Jump amount is specified using the
HHMM format.
- Page Up Jump back the configured number of minutes. (default is 10)
- Page Down Jump ahead the configured number of minutes. (default is 10)
- Z or End Skip to next commercial break marker
- Q or Home Skip back to previous commercial break marker
- + or - Cycle through audio streams
- | or F9 Toggle mute
- [ or F10 Decrease volume
- ] or F11 Increase volume
- Ctrl+B Jump to the beginning of the recording / ringbuffer.
- < starts sticky rewind mode
If a jump amount is entered, jump to that position.
- > starts sticky fast forward mode
If a jump amount is entered, jump that amount from the end.
While in sticky fast forward or rewind mode.
- Left/Right increases the ff/rew speed.
- 0 plays at normal speed, but leaves the time indicator on screen.
- 1 or 2 plays back more slowly than normal ff/rew speed (1 is slowest).
- 3 plays back at normal ff/rew speed.
- 4 - 9 plays back faster than normal ff/rew speed (9 is fastest).
- Space exits fast forward or rewind mode.
When in Teletext Menu mode:
- Up/Down Previous/Next Page
- Left/Right Previous/Next Subpage
- T Exit Teletext Menu
- F2-F6 Menu Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, or White, respectively
- F7 Toggle Background on/off
- F8 Reveal hidden text.
When MHEG ITV is enabled:
- F2-F5 Menu Red, Green, Yellow, or Blue, respectively
- F6 Exit key, exits from interactive mode on some channels
- F7 Text key, enters interactive mode on some channels
- F12 EPG key, enters EPG mode (New Zealand only).
The effect of these keys depends on what is being displayed. The arrow,
Enter, and 0-9 keys may also be used.
With the video paused:
- Left arrow Rewind one frame
- < or comma Rewind one second
- Right arrow Advance one frame
- > or period Advance one second
Watching TV only:
- 0-9 Enter a channel number...
press Return/OK when done to commit the channel change immediately
or Escape to cancel channel change.
- G Rotate between the various Picture Adjustments (Colour, Hue, etc.)
for recording. These values affect the look for all recordings made
with the current capture card and are independent of the playback
picture settings. While Picture Adjustment is on-screen, use Left and
Right arrows to adjust.
- Ctrl-G The same as G, except it affects the look for all recordings made
on the current channel, independent of the capture card used.
- H Channel history. Each repeat steps back through the previous channels.
- O Turns on 'Browse' mode, allowing user to browse channels and program
info while watching current show FullScreen.
- / Change to the next "favorite" channel
- ? Mark/Unmark the current channel as a "favorite" channel
- Y Switch to the next available capture source
- Ctrl-Y Switch to the previous capture source
- C Change to the next available tuner card input
- F7 Monitor signal quality on a card capable of signal monitoring
LiveTV while not in Browse Mode:
- Up/Down arrows Change the channel.
LiveTV Browse Mode:
- Left browse program prior to current listed program.
- Right browse program following current listed program.
- Up browse program on channel above current listed channel/program.
- Down browse program on channel below current listed channel/program.
- / browse program on next favorite channel.
- 0-9 enter a channel number to browse.
- Space/Enter change channel to channel of current listed program.
- R Toggle recording of current program (cycles through types)
- ESC/O Exit Browse mode.
Playback Recording
- Y Adjust Audio Sync
- R Cycle Commercial-Skip Mode
Playback Recording Zoom Mode:
- Left Move video to Left
- Right Move video to Right
- Up Move video Up
- Down Move video Down
- PageUp Zoom In
- PageDown Zoom Out
- Space/Enter Exit Zoom mode leaving picture at current size and position
- ESC Exit Zoom mode and return to original size.
If you have two or more tuner cards:
- V toggle Picture-in-picture on or off
- B toggles the window focus (lets you change channels on the PiP window).
- N swaps the two channels by changing channels on both cards.
While watching a recording:
- SPACE or ENTER will set a bookmark at that point. Next time you start the
recording, you will automatically jump forward to this point and clear the
bookmark.
- E enters/exits edit mode.
- The left and right keys move forward and backward.
- The up and down arrow keys alter the amount of time you jump forward and
backward. Increments are: nearest cutpoint, nearest video keyframe,
1 frame, 0.5 seconds, 1 second, 20 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, and
10 minutes.
- The page up and down keys move forward and backward to the nearest cut
point.
- The < or comma and > or period keys move forward or backward by 10 times
the normal jump amount.
- The M key shows a menu, allowing you to add, move, or delete a cut or to
save or revert changes.
- Space/Enter adds a cut or, if in a cut area, prompts for action.
- The D key deletes a cut.
- 'Z' loads the commercial skip list (if one exists) into the cut list.
- 'C' and 'Q' clear all cut points in the cut list.
- 'I' inverts the cut list.
- Escape prompts whether to save or cancel changes and allows exit.
- X queues the current recording for transcoding.
- O brings up menu to allow toggling settings such as Commercial Auto-Skip,
Auto-Expire, etc.
- D exits the current recording and displays the Delete menu for it.
EPG
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- Arrow keys are used to move the highlighted program point around.
- PageUp and PageDown move the channel list up or down a page.
- Home and End move the highlight left or right by one day.
- Control-Left and Control Right, <, >, period and comma keys move the
highlight left or right by one page.
- The keys 9, 3, 7 and 1 (like a numeric keypad) perform the same as PageUp,
PageDown, Home and End.
- E will allow you to schedule a recording.
- If you select "Record this showing" while watching Live TV you can
"Instant Record" a program.
- Space or Enter when watching LiveTV will change to that channel and exit the
EPG if the selected show is in progress or starts within 15 minutes; or
otherwise will allow you to resolve conflicts or change overrides. If the
program is not already scheduled to record, it will act like pressing E
instead.
- Pressing X will change the channel to the currently selected channel without
leaving the EPG (Most useful in the alternate EPG)
- Pressing ESC or C exits without changing the channel.
- Pressing R will change the current item from Recording/Not-Recording.
Successive keypresses cycle through the scheduled recording type list.
- Pressing '?' will mark/unmark the current channel as a "favorite"
- Pressing '/' or 4 will toggle the guide listing between all channels and
"favorites".
Set Program Recording Priorities and Set Channel Recording Priorities
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- Right increases priority value.
- Left decreases priority value.
- 1 sorts by title.
- 2 sorts by priority.
- Home/End to toggle sort priority.
- E to edit recording options.
- ESC commits changes and exits.
Viewing Scheduled Recordings/Resolving Conflicts
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- 1 to show all recordings.
- 2 to show only important recordings.
- Home/End to toggle show showing all/important.
- E to edit recording options.
- Space or Enter to resolve conflict or override.
Viewing Search Listings
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- Home to change to the previous view if applicable.
- End to change to the next view if applicable.
- M to select another view if applicable.
- In the title and description search popup, press M again to edit or
delete the selected view.
Program Finder
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- R will change the current item from Recording/Not-Recording.
Successive keypresses cycle through the scheduled recording type list.
- 4 switch to the Program Guide.
- 5 move to the middle of the active list.
Recording Profiles Setup Screen
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- D on a custom profile group displays a popup to delete the group.
Recording Groups
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Recording Groups allow you to separate programs into user-defined
categories, such as "Kids", "Alice", "Bob", etc. This can be used to reduce
clutter, or to segregate content if you use the PIN function.
In the Watch Recordings Screen
- M to change the view or to set a group password or change recording and
storage options. Press M again to toggle between menus.
Watch Recordings Screen
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- "1" or F1 to get a popup on the meaning of the icons
- / to tag a recording. Tagged recordings can be played (in order or
shuffled) and deleted as a group. You can also change the
recording group for several recordings at once by tagging them and
using the popup INFO menu to change the recording group.
- ? to clear the tagged list.
Remote Controls
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If you are using MythTV with just a remote control then it is suggested that you
map the remote control keys as described below. Your remote control may not
have the same set of keys as those named below, the names are only a suggestion
that roughly correspond to the function.
If you are adding new key bindings to the program then consideration of this
suggested list will help users with remote controls.
This list assumes a minimal remote control that only has 20 keys, nearly all
features can be used with this configuration. If you have more keys then you
can access all of the features. With only 16 keys most features are usable.
Remote Control LIRC Keystroke Function
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0 - 9 0 - 9 channel selection, EPG navigation,
ff/rew speed setting (sticky ffwd/rew)
Left Arrow Left scroll left, rewind
Right Arrow Right scroll right, fast forward
Up Arrow Up scroll up, channel change up
Down Arrow Down scroll down, channel change down
Select / OK / Play Space Select item, play (in sticky ffwd/rew)
set bookmark
Cancel Escape Cancel, quit playback
Menu m EPG (from watching TV)
edit (from playback).
Pause p Pause
Other key 1 i Information
Other key 2 c Change tuner card input